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The summative assessments are the major activities designed to assess your skills, knowledge and performance, as required to show competency in this unit. These activities should be completed after finishing the Learner Guide. You should complete these as stated below and as instructed by your trainer/assessor.

Knowledge, skills and performance may be termed as:

· Knowledge – knowledge requirements, required knowledge, essential knowledge, knowledge evidence

· Skills Performance

· skill requirements, required skills, essential skills, foundation skills

· evidence requirements, critical aspects of assessment, performance evidence.

Section A: Knowledge Activity

The Knowledge Activity is a series of activities to confirm your competency for all of the required knowledge in the unit of competency.

Section B: Skills Performance Activity

The Skills Performance Activity is designed to be a practical activity performed based on the information you have obtained in Section A. You should demonstrate the required practical tasks for the unit of competency and be observed by the assessor, as applicable to the situation.

If necessary for the activities, you should attach completed written answers, portfolios or any evidence of competency when submitting this work.

Marking guidance

You will undertake two Summative Assessments as your own work but communicating with others. To satisfactorily pass this unit, you need to ensure that each component of the Summative Assessment (Sections A & B) is completed, submitted and marked Satisfactory.

Submission

See the Unit Outline and listen to your trainer for the due date for this assessment.

You will be supplied with the assessment materials via the Moodle course for this unit.

It is acceptable to prepare and capture parts of your project using word processing, scanned document or other forms of technology (eg audio recordings). When you do this, you MUST name the files correctly and upload them to the Moodle course for this unit.

Make sure that you complete and submit the cover page each time you submit your work for a Summative Assessment.

Feedback and results

You will receive supportive feedback about your work for your Summative Assessments.

See the International Student Handbook for the College’s policies on resubmissions and appeals.

You can always talk to your trainer about the feedback and your progress.

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required knowledge for this unit.

1.1 Use safe work practices to ensure ergonomic, work organisation, energy and resource conservation requirements are met

· Follow organisational and safe work practices including:

· ergonomic requirements

· energy and resource conservation techniques

· Outline various formatting styles and their effect on formatting, readability and appearance of documents

· Explain organisational requirements for ergonomics, work periods and breaks, and conservation techniques

· Describe purpose and contents of an organisational style guide

· Navigate the world of work

· Recognises and follows explicit and implicit protocols and meets expectations associated with own role

Background

As part of your first job with Valley View Publishing, your supervisor asks you to research and create a number of business documents.

Your supervisor has asked you to research and complete the following tasks:

Email

Report

2. Describe the purpose and contents of the Valley View Publishing Style Guide (20-40 words)

3. The Supervisor says that as part of your induction that you are required to read the company’s health and safety standards document called the Valley View Publishing health and safety policy (See Assessment Supporting Documents). Use this information and your own research to complete the following tasks.

Explain the organisational requirements for each of the following:

4. Use the Print to .pdf printing option for the Valley View Publishing WHS Policy.doc, take and paste a screenshot below of the printer properties are set to double-sided print setting to show that you have met the organisation’s resource conservation requirements.

5. Take and paste a screenshot below of the energy saving feature on your computer monitor in sleep setting mode.

6. Setup or make adjustments to your work station to ensure it meets organisational ergonomic and work organisation requirements and insert a photo below.

7. Using the table below, list and describe 3 formatting styles used in a business document and explain what the effect each formatting style has on formatting, readability and appearance

Section B: Skills Performance Activity

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate the required performance criteria, performance evidence and foundation skills for this unit.

1. Prepare to produce word processed documents

1.1 Identify document purpose, audience and presentation requirements, and clarify with relevant personnel as required

1.2 Identify organisational requirements for text-based business documents to ensure consistency of style and image

1.3 Evaluate complex technical functions of software for its usefulness in fulfilling requirements of the task

1.4 Match document requirements with software functions to provide efficient production of documents

2. Design complex documents

2.1 Design document structure and layout to suit purpose, audience and information requirements of task

2.2 Design document to enhance readability and appearance, and to meet organisational and task requirements for style and layout

2.3 Use complex software functions to enable efficient manipulation of information and other material, and ensure consistency of design and layout

2.4 Use manuals, user documentation and online help to overcome problems with document design and production

3. Add complex tables and other data

3.1 Insert a standard table into document, changing cells to meet information requirements

3.2 Format rows and columns as required

3.3 Insert images and other data, formatting as required

4. Produce documents

4.1 Use complex operations to develop documents, and achieve required results

4.2 Preview, adjust and print documents in accordance with organisational and task requirements

4.3 Name and store documents in accordance with organisational requirements and exit application without information loss/damage

4.4 Prepare documents within designated timelines and for speed and accuracy

· Adhere to organisational requirements for:

· producing documents within designated timelines

· naming and storing documents

· Adhere to task requirements when producing complex documents including:

· using appropriate styles and layout consistently throughout the document

· using correct formatting and document structure

· Resolve issues by referring to user documentation and online help

· Use appropriate data storage options

· Apply knowledge of complex operation and functions of industry software applications

· Communicate with relevant personnel

· Reading

· Recognises and interprets textual information from a range of resources to determine and confirm requirements and to assist with document issues

· Writing

· Develops material using required format and incorporating technical functions to meet business needs

· Oral communication

· Uses specific and relevant language to confirm understanding of requirements and listens carefully to verbal instructions and discussions

· Numeracy

· Recognises and inputs numerical information according to requirements

· Navigate the world of work

· Recognises and follows explicit and implicit protocols and meets expectations associated with own role

· Interact with others

· Collaborates with others to achieve joint outcomes

· Get the work done

· Applies formal processes when planning more complex/unfamiliar tasks, producing plans with logically sequenced steps

· Uses advanced features within applications to access, store, organise data and perform routine and complex work tasks

Assessment information

Use the information provided, together with the information that you researched and wrote about for Section A: Knowledge Activity in this Assessment workbook, as well as your own research, to complete this assessment.

For this assessment you will have a meeting with your supervisor to identify and clarify the purpose, audience and presentation requirements for some documents they need created. You will then create these documents according to the Valley View Publishing Style Guide.

For the meeting, you will need to interact with another person as follows:

a. Meet with 1 other BSBITU401 Design and develop complex text documents student who will act your supervisor – ensure this student has completed Section A of this assessment workbook before completing this activity so they have the required knowledge to participate in this role

1. Meeting with your supervisor

a. Make a time to meet with another BSBITU401 Design and develop complex text documents student (5-10 mins) who will act as your supervisor

At this meeting you will discuss the creation of two documents in Section 2 below by:

· The other person explaining that they need two documents developed to take to an industry expo:

· Report – so they can share the research Valley View Publishing has been involved in

· Tax Invoice template – so they can quickly create invoices at the expo when someone buys something

· The other person explaining what information needs to go into each document eg

· Text from the BSBITU401 A3 Formal report information document

· BSBITU401 Report image picture at the bottom of the front page

· Insert a text box (centred) under the image and write (Source: Pixabay / CC0)

· Under the heading Readiness for the Future of Production Assessment Results create a table using the information in the image in Section 2

· You then describing how you will design and develop these documents based on this information below

· Asking the person if:

· you have any questions related to what you need to do

· they have any questions related to what you need to do

· Closing the meeting appropriately

2. Design and develop complex text documents

a. Following the meeting with your supervisor, it is now time to design and develop the documents.

Remember to:

· create a folder called Expo documentation

· use the Valley View Publishing Style Guide and use Online Help to overcome problems with document design and production

· to complete your work within 2 hours

Report

Using the Valley View Publishing Report Template create a report containing the following:

· Text from the BSBITU401 A3 Formal report information document

· BSBITU401 Report image picture at the bottom of the front page

· Insert a text box (centred) under the image and write (Source: Pixabay / CC0)

· Footer from page 2:

· File pathway – left hand aligned

· Page X of X – right hand aligned

· Under the heading Readiness for the Future of Production Assessment Results create a table using the following information. Ensure you merge cells for

· Country

· Structure of Production

· Drivers of Production

This will used by the trainer to document the learner’s knowledge, skills and performance as relevant to the summative assessments: Sections A & B. The table indicates if the learner is deemed satisfactory (S) or not satisfactory (NS) for the activity or if reassessment is required.